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Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam urges United States to investigate Mahinda Rajapaksa!

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Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam urges United States to investigate Mahinda Rajapaksa!

Urges people to actively participate in the demonstrations around the world

Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) urged the United States to investigate Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who arrived on a surprise visit to the United States, for his role in perpetrating Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Tamil civilians.

TGTE also urged Eelam Tamils to actively participate in the demonstrations being held outside the White House & the State Department and outside US Embassies in many centers around the world, calling on the United States to investigate visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

There is enough Tamil blood in Mahinda Rajapaksa’s hands to qualify him as a perpetrator of Genocide. Around 60,000 Tamil civilians were massacred in the final stages of the war that ended in May 2009. Hospitals were repeatedly bombed and food was prevented from reaching trapped Tamil civilians. According to the United Nations, several died due to starvation. The International Red Cross (ICRC) was prevented from treating injured civilians, resulting in numerous people having bled to death. When Tamil civilians fled, they were kept in concentration camps. Several were taken from these camps and executed. Several womenwere raped. Mahinda Rajapaksa, in his capacity as the President of Sri Lanka and in his role as the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, bears primary responsibility for the perpetration of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Tamil civilians. It is imperative that he and all others responsible for these heinous crimes are brought before justice.

The president’s visit comes as a Panel of Experts appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon works on a war crimes report in Sri Lanka. TGTE submitted a well documented report to that UN Committee on Genocide, detailing mass killings, white flag killings, and other atrocities. Recently, TGTE also urged the UN Secretary General to expand the mandate of his panel to include abuses committed since the war ended, including abuses in the camps, killings, abductions and rapes.

In December Wikileaks exposed a secret United States Embassy cable sent by Ambassador Patricia Butenis from Colombo in which she noted the difficulty of bringing perpetrators of alleged crimes to justice when “responsibility for many of the alleged crimes rests with the

country's senior civilian and military leadership, including President Rajapaksa and his brothers ....”. This is evidence that the US government is well aware of the facts regarding the perpetrators of the serious war crimes in Sri Lanka.

TGTE calls on all Eelam Tamils in the Diaspora to contact the US embassies in their respective countries and urgently seek an investigation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Additionally, please contact the United States Justice Department by calling: (202)514-2000 ask for War Crimes Department, and urge them to investigate Mahinda Rajapaksa. You can also email the request to: askdoj@usdoj.gov

Prime Minister Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran

TGTE.

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